Re: Git tedious verbosity

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:55:49PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:19:53PM +0300, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:

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Nice info, thanks. Does that disable maintenance messages like:

Updated 1 path from the index

I don't think it does. Usually how this works is that we add new
messages which we think might be helpful, enable them by default (since
users aren't likely to find out about them if they never see them!), and
then if they turn out to be annoying or verbose, add an advice.* config
option to allow people to avoid them.

The message quoted above is a relatively new one, and I don't think it's
hit that third step yet. Patches welcome. :)

Oh, and if you want to see the complete list, look for "advice.*" in
"git help config".

It says:

   All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you
   do not need help by setting these to false:

If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default
maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think.

-- Sergey